Texas

A highschool teacher in Texas named Lizeth Villanueva, an honors student for the last two years, “most likely to become a terrorist award” on Tuesday, May 23. The award was part of a joke, as a mock end-of-the-year awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Texas, near Houston, where a group of teachers handed out

By Terry Wade HOUSTON, Sept 26 – A troubled lawyer opened fire on morning commuters in Houston on Monday, injuring at least nine people before being fatally shot by police, authorities said. Six victims were taken to hospitals and three were treated at the scene after being shot at while inside their vehicles in the

By Barbara Goldberg July 4 – A Muslim doctor headed for morning prayers on Sunday at a Houston mosque was shot in an attacked by three men, police said. The motive for the attack was unclear, but comes a day after another Muslim man was beaten outside a Florida mosque. The victim of the Texas

By Jilian Mincer June 27 – The battle over abortion was expected to shift to measures focusing on the fetus in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a Texas law enacted in the name of maternal health. The 5-3 ruling held that Texas clinic regulations put an undue burden on women

By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 9 – A U.S. judge denied for the second time a request by Texas to bar relief agencies from bringing Syrian refugees into the state, a decision that could have a bearing on the attempts of 30 other governors to block refugees from their states. U.S. District Judge David

By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas, Dec 7 – Two families of Syrian refugees are due to arrive in Texas on Monday despite efforts by the state to prevent them from resettling there, which include a lawsuit it filed last week in federal court to bar them entry. A family of six composed of two children